Health Care

June 8, 1986|By Deanne Brandon

PROFIT REPORT. Profit-making hospitals have benefited the nation's health-care system by injecting new money, increasing service and intensifying competition, the Institute for Medicine has concluded. But seven of the 22 committee members dissented, arguing that profit-making hospitals could hurt the system because they are investor-oriented. The Washington-based institute, an affiliate of the National Academy of Sciences, examined profit-making hospitals a report summarized in last week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.